Top Human Resources Startups in 2026

Lattice helps companies retain and develop their employees by providing an extremely intuitive and easy to use performance management platform. Employees find it simple and integrated with their daily workflows, while HR has the power and flexibility to create any performance management process they'd like. Customers include Coinbase, Plangrid, GRAIL, Cruise Automation, and hundreds more.

Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 100,000 businesses nationwide. Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto.

Wellist makes it easy for employees to find and use the right resources—just like online shopping. Our platform brings together all employee benefits, career development tools, and vetted community services into a single consolidated marketplace. Employees access 5X more support, while employers gain powerful workforce insights to drive engagement and reduce costs.

Humanly is revolutionizing talent acquisition with our AI-powered recruiting platform, designed to automate screening, scheduling, and candidate engagement. As a fast-growing Series A company, we help mid-market and enterprise organizations transform their hiring processes, reducing time-to-hire and elevating candidate experience through intelligent automation. Behind our tech is a team of curious, driven, and deeply human people. We take ownership, move fast, and care about doing the right thing - for our customers, candidates, and each other. Our culture is built on collaboration, authenticity, and a shared belief that hiring can and should be better. We’ve been honored as a GeekWire Workplace of the Year nominee multiple years in a row, and named one of Will Reed’s Top 100 early-stage companies to work for. These recognitions reflect what we already know: Humanly is a place where people come to grow, build, do meaningful work- and have a little fun while we’re at it.

Culture Amp is Culture Analytics for your company. Surveys and insight for engaged employees. We provide world-class surveys that can be customized to suit your organization. This is combined with a powerful, intuitive dashboard and analytics engine. You can survey all your employees, parts of your organization, or "pulse" survey different employees in real-time. Metrics and instrumentation for Employee Engagement, Exit, Onboarding, Manager Effectiveness and many more.

Flockjay’s Sales Elevation platform captures winning strategies from internal stars and external experts, coaches reps with real-time training, and motivates teams to implement and adapt best practices. We are backed by leading investors, including Y Combinator.

At ProviderTrust, we are dedicated to helping our clients by providing a healthcare system that is not only safer for our clients, but smarter as well. We realize that by monitoring your healthcare system, we can ensure that all components of your healthcare system are in compliance and conforming to the credentials and established guidelines for a accredited and healthy relationship. Our mission is to identify any compliance issues before they can make a negative impact on our clients. At ProviderTrust, we recognize the importance of staying on top of risk management processes by building an exclusion Monitoring system that ensures that our client's healthcare system is operating as it should. Our simplified license verification system is in place to make sure that all licenses and credentials are verified, taking the stress of verification off of the client. At ProviserTrust, we also offer sanction screening services across all 50 states by using software to search and screen both federal and state agencies to identify sanctioned and excluded individuals and entities. This allows us to deliver reliable and comprehensive results that our clients can count on. To make things even more simple for our clients, ProviderTrust offers total compliance in one Dashboard. ProviderTrust is the modern, smart way to provide safer healthcare for our clients.

15Five is a continuous performance management solution that helps employees grow and develop, in just 15 minutes each week. Through a lightweight weekly check-in, 15Five delivers everything a manager needs to impact employee performance, including continuous feedback, objectives (OKR) tracking, recognition, 1-on-1s, and 360° reviews. 15Five is the most popular performance management software out of 246 vendors, and a Top 50 Fastest Growing Product on G2Crowd, with over 1,900 forward-thinking companies using the solution to bring out the best in their people. Recent press: 15five.com/press What we're about: 15five.com/philosophy/core-values

Zenefits is the leading all-in-one HCM (human capital management) solution for small and medium businesses. Designed as an interconnected ecosystem of apps, Zenefits delivers the most complete HR experience by combining its own powerful apps with dozens of best-of-breed providers on the Zenefits platform. Built on a modern technology stack, Zenefits’ platform provides a comprehensive Employee Record tightly integrated with Zenefits’ apps like onboarding, payroll, compliance and benefits administration and partner apps like email, expense management, 401(k) and employee engagement. The result is a powerful HCM solution that helps mid-market businesses manage their people, stay compliant and save thousands of hours in lost time. Mission: To help businesses thrive by creating a complete HR platform that empowers employees and manages change.

NovoEd’s collaborative learning platform empowers organizations to design and deliver experiential learning that accelerates business performance on a global scale. Since the company’s founding at Stanford’s social algorithm laboratory in 2012, global corporations, executive education providers, and training firms have relied on NovoEd to develop high-value capabilities through purposeful practice and application, coaching and mentorship, and group collaboration. NovoEd’s proven approach to learning connects diverse groups of learners, mentors, and leaders in a high-impact online environment, unlocking your organization’s collective knowledge and driving measurable outcomes. Learn more at novoed.com!